Topic: Slow Ship Simulator PC PROBLEM? (Read 11286 times)

Capt. Matt · « **on:** April 04, 2009, 02:39:37 »

I Have a dell precision with
250gb hard disk space
2gb ram
intel pentium 4 processor
Nvidea Quadro FX 1000 Graphics Card

I don't know why but Ship Sim is EXTREMLY SLOW on my PC is it the graphics card?

CommanderHobo · « **Reply #1 on:** April 04, 2009, 03:28:04 »

Ship Sim is particularly demanding on a computer. Part of your problem could be your card, since it's on the low end.

What kind of frame rates are you getting? What operating system do you have? (if you have Vista, 2GB of RAM is kind of low).

Also, what's the clock speed of your processor? If you have a slow processor, it can also have an effect on how Ship Sim runs.

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #2 on:** April 04, 2009, 14:33:10 »

The Graphics card is 128mb and I honestly dont know about the other stuff and im running XP pro how do I find out about the frame rate?

TerryRussell · « **Reply #3 on:** April 04, 2009, 15:37:20 »

Hi kidcptainmo.

You'll need to upload your "DXdiag" results so that I can take a look and see what's what.

Here is how to upload your DXdiag results:

Click Start button. Select "Run". Type "dxdiag" and press "Enter".
(If using Vista you may have to press the Windows Key + R to get the "Run" prompt, depending on how your system is set up)

You might be asked about WHQL drivers, click "Ok".

In the next window click the button that says "Save All Information", when the Save Dialog box appears, save the file to your desktop.

To upload the file here, select "Reply" to this message. Select "Additional Options" (underneath the text area) and choose "Browse". Browse to your desktop, click the file and click "Open". When finished post the message.

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #4 on:** April 04, 2009, 15:50:41 »

Here Terry

TerryRussell · « **Reply #5 on:** April 04, 2009, 16:22:43 »

The problem would seem to be your Quadro card.

I'm not familiar with that range, but it doesn't seem to be fast enough.

Does anyone else have any experience of this card?

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #6 on:** April 05, 2009, 14:30:27 »

My uncle is a computer person and he thinks it may just need an update but im not sure if it is just an older card.
Captn Matt

TerryRussell · « **Reply #7 on:** April 05, 2009, 14:50:28 »

It's not one of the supported cards for Ship Simulator and I think it just may not be good enough, but go to the Nvidia site at
http://www.nvidia.com
and see if there is an updated drver for your card. It might help (but it might not).

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #8 on:** April 05, 2009, 15:36:52 »

I did the update doesnt seem to do anything so should i get a GeForce one what do you recomment OR do you think that it is a slow CPU or Motherbord

TerryRussell · « **Reply #9 on:** April 05, 2009, 19:37:34 »

Your CPU is plenty good enough. And you have 2GB of RAM, which is enough under XP.

Be careful which card you get, though. Some of them "share" the RAM, which means they steal it from your system.

The NVIDIA 8800 series seem very good, but check beforehand in case they use any of the system RAM. The letters at the end make a huge difference (8800 GT and 8800 GTX are very different cards)

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #10 on:** April 06, 2009, 01:24:37 »

Geforce 9600 GSO I was looking to buy that is a 715mb Graphics card I believe.
How is that one?

J3nsen · « **Reply #11 on:** April 06, 2009, 01:44:06 »

Nvida Quadro are made for 3D program and game making, dont think this are made for games...

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #12 on:** April 06, 2009, 21:05:40 »

Thanks J3nsen!!

saltydog · « **Reply #13 on:** April 07, 2009, 06:03:15 »

Hiya kidcaptainmo, you can use Fraps (a free program) to check your framerate..

http://www.fraps.com/

You open it before you play a game, then it shows you the fps (frames per second) in that game..

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #14 on:** April 07, 2009, 21:01:19 »

downloaded it so now what?

TerryRussell · « **Reply #15 on:** April 07, 2009, 21:19:30 »

I'll move this across to Small Talk now. You'll get a lot more people giving you hints and tips there, I expect.

Rik de Leeuw · « **Reply #16 on:** June 12, 2009, 15:47:12 »

acording to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Quadro it should be roughly equivalent to an geforce 5800 which is a little to slow for the game I guess.

RMS Canada · « **Reply #17 on:** June 12, 2009, 16:53:13 »

I had this same problem as well, but I purchased a new graphics card and Ship Sim 08 works great on my PC.

TerryRussell · « **Reply #18 on:** June 12, 2009, 16:55:18 »

Well, my expectation that moving it here would get more results was somewhat optimistic, it seems. It took over two months to get a reply.

Oh dear...

jordans · « **Reply #19 on:** June 15, 2009, 03:50:29 »

Hey does any one Know how to get the the update for SS08?

TJK · « **Reply #20 on:** June 15, 2009, 06:45:53 »

Quote from: jordans on June 15, 2009, 03:50:29

Hey does any one Know how to get the the update for SS08?

go here http://www.shipsim.com

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #21 on:** June 15, 2009, 20:37:57 »

Im getting a new PC for my B day (friday)

Its a HP Elite core quad processer

750 hd memory

, 8gb memory

, Nvidea 9500 graphics

, Vista home premimum

http://www.staples.com/office/supplies/p17_HP-Pavilion-Elite-m9510f-Desktop-PC_273650_1_Business_Supplies_10051_true_FEATURED:SC3:CG71:DP4119 (http://www.staples.com/office/supplies/p17_HP-Pavilion-Elite-m9510f-Desktop-PC_273650_1_Business_Supplies_10051_true_FEATURED:SC3:CG71:DP4119)
Check It out hopefully my parents will help pay cause that is all I want other that New Horizons and a saxophone case hehe.
Matt

TJK · « **Reply #22 on:** June 15, 2009, 20:56:29 »

Quote from: TerryRussell on April 04, 2009, 16:22:43

The problem would seem to be your Quadro card.

I'm not familiar with that range, but it doesn't seem to be fast enough.

Does anyone else have any experience of this card?

I have the same card as matt on my server pc, no probleme, run's like

maybe you have to many programs that start up with windows that steel you memory
Tore

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #23 on:** June 15, 2009, 21:04:29 »

Hmm I usually shut all programs down before running QV and SS hmmm My uncle and I tested it on his 4 PC's 3 pentium 4's like mine and one a duel core the pentium 4's all ran slow like mine and the duel core was fast

TJK · « **Reply #24 on:** June 15, 2009, 21:13:42 »

Remember matt if you have a dual or a quad cpu say speed is 2,5GHz then you don't have speed like 5GHz or 10 GHz cpu only 2,5 GHz

that you have are 2 or 4 single CPU's in one that help its other, but Terry can explain this beater and me i think

can explain it on Norwegian, but then you will not understend

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